WINCHESTER, N.H. – Colton Martin and Tyler Leary split a Modified twinbill Saturday night on the high banks of Monadnock Speedway.
Michael Yeaton, a star of the Six Shooter division, won his first ever in the Pure Stocks and then, still warming up, won his second. Fast Eddie, who cut his racing teeth here in the Young Guns, earned his first Pro 4 Modified win at Monadnock.
Limited Late Model ace JD Stockwell, rebounding from a forgettable night a week earlier, scored a strong win Saturday to pad his points lead in the sizzling full-fendered division. In the visiting Mini Cup series, it was Kendal Whitehill powering to another high banks victory lap.
Martin, one of 88 graduating seniors earlier at Claremont’s Stevens High School, started up front alongside Cole Littlewood in the first All States Material Group 604 Modified 35-lapper and never looked back. Bringing row-two starter Andy Major with him, he then held the Bay State blaster at bay to score a two-length victory.
WINCHESTER, N.H. – Modified superstar Brian Robie added to his legacy at the great race place Saturday, topping the $5,000-to-win Open Modified Winchester 101 at Monadnock Speedway.
The reigning and multi-time speedway 604 Modified champion set fast time in qualifying and then outran a stout 18-car field to earn the big payday at his home track, the site of scores of feature victories by the Sunapee speedster over the last decade.
In other events Saturday on the high banks, Hillary Renaud survived a wild one to notch her first Limited Late Model victory of the season, Eric Pomasko ended a long drought by topping the Mini Stocks, and Young Guns sensation Dylan Stati won for the fifth week in a row.
WINCHESTER, NH – The rain stopped and the stars came out Saturday night at Monadnock Speedway, and none shone more brightly than JD Stockwell and Tyler Leary, who each powered to their second victory of the season on the high banks of the great race place.
No fewer than three different drivers won their first feature event of the summer on the final Saturday of May at the fast quarter-mile, and Young Gun wizard Dylan Stati extended his youth division winning streak to five, but Saturday’s big money victories went to Leary and Stockwell.
WINCHESTER, N,H. Joey Jarvis survived a slugfest to win his first Modified feature of the summer Saturday at Monadnock Speedway. The second generation Vermont pilot accomplished the feat by sitting in the best seat in the house, the pole, from where he was immune to the wildness behind him.
Jarvis was one of five first time 2026 winners on the high banks of the fast quarter mile. Justin Beecher, in house for the night’s special R&R Open Street Stock show, duplicated his victory of the same event a summer ago, and reigning speedway Mini Stock champ John Fultz picked up where he left off last September.
In the Pure Stocks, red hot rookie Josh Brigham scored the first win of his career. New England Dwarf Car pilot Ryan Carman scored his first career victory on the high banks, and then there was 11-year-old Dylan Stati.
WINCHESTER, N.H. – Jimmy Zellman stole the show Saturday on the high banks of Monadnock Speedway, passing four cars at the south end of the track with the awaiting checkers in the air to win a thrilling 50-lap Pure Stock main event.
With more than 80 teams packing the pits and a huge early season crowd on hand, Zellman was one of five different drivers winning their first event of the year Saturday at the historic quarter-mile, but none with the thrills that Zellman provided.
Qualifying out of the consi, the Greenfield, Mass. hot shoe started deep, deep, deep in the 24-car field and charged forward to lead only the final 200 feet of the 50-lap main and earn the $1,000 winner’s purse.
Modified ace Tyler Leary scored a huge win Saturday on the high banks of Monadnock Speedway, topping the 75-lap Todd Martell Memorial Modified main event ahead of a deep field of open-wheel strongmen.
On a hoodies-up night when hot cocoa was much more in fashion than icecream that have long been a staple at the Winchester quarter-mile, the Hatfield, Mass. star was red hot, leading the last 36 laps en route to the big win.
Other winners on the first Saturday of May at Monadnock included JD Stockwell, who won a thriller in the Limited Late Model feature, Carlos Grenier, who was first under the checkers in the Pure Stocks, Randy Clark, victorious in the Pro 4 Modifieds, and Dylan Stati, who scored his first win ever in the Young Guns.
